Quotes of: Being-alone Keyword

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

Love Letters to the Dead

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

Life, the Universe and Everything

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

To the Lighthouse

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?

Letters From Home

Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.

Lock and Key

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Love and Living

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Lord of the Shadows

An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.

Lost for Words

The train blows through town delivering reality, slapping my face and screaming, “You are alone” Rose colored memories drown, taking their last breath.

Magic in the Backyard

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

Mockingjay

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for alone he kept the prefix summus.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Loneliness why do you accompany me if I wish to be alone?

Small Portion: a little taste of poetry

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound and more like a poultice.

The Storyteller

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend

The Story of My Experiments With Truth

The silence was enchanting. Infinite space seemed to enter it, and my spirit, alone with the stars, seemed capable of any adventure.

The Summing Up

It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls." "There are always walls." I say.

Sever

She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He’s a religion for non-believers.

The Social Worker

If it weren't for the animals waiting for her, she wouldn't bother getting out of bed. Then, room service was a little lacking when you lived alone.

Tuesday's Child

Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

Paradise Lost

That evening When I was all alone In our bedroom To give me company Your voice came along

Postcards From Memory

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings